Chapter 7
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After Laurel arrived home with food half an hour earlier Laurel, Thea, Roy and Sin are in the kitchen making snacks for their movies together.
"So, what movies then are we watching tonight?" Laurel asks curious as Thea, Roy and Sin are the ones who picked the movies.
"You'll see." Thea answers as there is a knock on the door.
"Roy can you get that?" Laurel request as he is closest.
"Sure." Roy says and he heads to the door, when Roy opens the door to find Oliver on the other side it is hard to tell who is more surprised, Oliver or Roy.
"Can I help you?" Roy asks.
"Um yeah." Oliver says, having no idea who the Roy is, "Is Thea home?" he asks.
"Who's asking?" Roy ask.
"Her brother."
"Oh, so you're Oliver." Roy says, anger in his voice, "Let me guess you're here to hurt Thea and Laurel more." He comments.
"Roy." Laurel says in a warning tone of voice, as she walks over, having heard parts of the conversations.
"What?" Roy asks innocently.
"Go help Sin and Thea, make sure they're not making too much popcorn again." She tells him.
"There's no such thing as too much popcorn." Roy comments, not looking away from Oliver.
"Go." Laurel tells him and he does, glaring at Oliver as he goes.
"He seems charming." Oliver says, sarcastically, as Roy walks away.
"He's a friend of Thea's, of both of us really, and is pretty protective." Laurel explains, "What do you want Ollie?" she asks.
"I wanted to talk to Thea." Oliver explains.
"Really? After you stood her up today?" Laurel asks, anger in her voice, "She didn't deserve that Ollie, you hurt her."
"I know, and I meant to be there I did…"
"Then why weren't you?" Laurel asks, cutting Oliver off before he can explain more.
"Tommy and I were kidnapped." Oliver reveals.
"Seriously Ollie? That's what you're going with?" Laurel asks disbelieving.
"You can ask your Dad if you don't believe me, he took the police report." Oliver explains, and at that Laurel believes him as she knows that he wouldn't suggest her father if he wasn't telling the truth, "I was really looking forward to spending time with Thea, and nothing other than being kidnaped would have kept me from her." Oliver explains, "I'm want to do better Laurel, I don't want to let Thea down again."
"You better not." Laurel says, stepping forward, "I want to make something perfectly clear, you may be Thea's brother, but I am her guardian and it is my job to protect her from anyone who will hurt her, or cause he disappointment, and that includes you." Laurel explains, "I won't let you hurt her."
"I love Thea." Oliver says, in his defence, though he is glad that Laurel is so protective of his sister.
"That's why I'm saying this, in my experience it's the people you love who get hurt by you the most." Laurel reminds Oliver, "Thea's been hurt by too many people, too many times, and I won't let you be added to that list."
"You're different." Oliver comments as he doesn't remember Laurel being this brutally honest.
"It's been five years."
"I know you have no reason to believe me, but I do want to do better. I don't want to let Thea down again; I'm going to try harder." Oliver tells Laurel meaning that.
As she looks at Oliver Laurel realises that he does mean that, so she steps aside and lets Oliver into the apartment.
"THEA." Laurel calls as she closes the door behind Oliver, and a few seconds later Thea heads out of the kitchen.
"Ollie." Thea says, making it clear that Laurel is telling the truth and Thea is pretty hurt by his actions.
"Why don't you two talk in the office. I'll go make sure Roy and Sin aren't destroying the kitchen." Laurel comments.
"Please, we both know that the only person here who Is likely to destroy that kitchen is you." Thea says with a teasing grin.
As Laurel heads to the kitchen Oliver and Thea head into the office.
"There's a bed in here now?" Oliver asks surprised as he looks around the office, as basically everything seems the same, except the bed.
"Yeah. Roy stays here a lot Laurel put the bed in here so that he didn't have to keep sleeping on the couch." Thea explains.
"Are you…." Oliver starts to ask.
"No, Roy's just a friend." Thea quickly says, "But after five years I don't think you have any right to question me about my personal life." She tells her brother, doing so because she is annoyed with him for standing her up.
"I'm sorry, I really wanted us to spend time together today." Oliver tells his sister.
"I know, I heard what you and Laurel were saying." Thea explains.
"Oh." Oliver says, "I um, have something for you." Oliver says as he pulls a stone arrowhead out of his pocket.
"You did not come back from a deserted island with a souvenir." Thea says amused.
"It's a Hozen and in Buddhism, it symbolizes reconnecting. I kept it in hopes that one day, it would reconnect me with you." Oliver says as he hands the hozen to Thea.
"Wow, nice." Thea comments.
"I want to make it up to you Thea, maybe we give spending time together another chance. I'll try not to get kidnapped this time." Oliver says.
"I'd like that." Thea admits.
"Snacks are ready. Movies starting soon." Sin says as she walks out from the kitchen carrying food and drinks, Laurel and Roy right behind her.
"How about Saturday." Oliver suggests, "We could spend the day together."
"Sure." Thea answers.
"Saturday, but what about….." Sin starts to say.
"It's okay." Laurel quickly says before anyone can explain what is going on Saturday as she isn't ready for Oliver to know yet, "Thea can miss that if she wants." Laurel says as even though she really wants Thea there she wants it to be Thea's choice.
"Oh, if you already have plans we can do it another time, Sunday, if that's better." Oliver comments, having completely forgotten that his sister would have plans that doesn't involve him.
"No Saturday's good, I can do both." Thea says, already coming up with an idea, as Laurel, Roy and Sin head to the living room.
"Okay, I guess I should get going." Oliver comments, "Enjoy your movie night." He says before heading to the door.
"Ollie." Thea says before he can get to the door, "Why don't you stay." She suggests.
"I'm not sure that would be a good idea." Oliver comments, resisting the urge to look over at Laurel as he is pretty sure that she really wouldn't like the idea.
"You can stay if you want." Laurel says, to the surprise of everyone, as even though she would prefer Oliver not staying she knows how much it would mean to Thea.
"Then I might just do that." Oliver says as he walks over to the living area. As they do Laurel, Thea and Sin sit down on the couch, while Roy sits down on the arm chair and having no idea where else to sit Oliver just sits on the floor near to where Thea is sitting on the couch, "What movie are you watching?" Oliver asks curious.
"2012." Roy answers.
"What's it about?" Oliver ask curious.
"The end of the world." Thea comments, "Which you will be facing if you steal all the skittles again." She says to Sin.
"I only do that before you can." Sin argues.
"Thea, Sin, relax I got more than enough for both of you, but if any of you steal the lasts of the Oreos I won't be responsible for my actions." Laurel informs the others.
"We know." Roy, Thea and Sin say together and honestly Oliver is amused by that even if he doesn't let it show, and together the group of five drift into silence as they watch the movie together.
For the next few hours Laurel, Oliver, Thea, Roy and Sin sit together watching movies, and part of the reason why things are so pleasant is because they have been mostly silent while they watch the movies.
"Okay, it's getting late." Laurel comments as the second movie ends, "Roy, Sin, are you guys staying tonight?" Laurel ask curious.
"No, I have an early morning tomorrow." Roy comments.
"And I have some work to do which I didn't bring with me." Sin comments.
"Okay, just be careful walking back." Laurel tells the two as they stand up and hug Laurel.
"Don't worry Laurel, we've got someone watching out for us." Roy comments.
"Yeah, I very much doubt the Woman in Black will let anything happen to us." Sin adds and as she does Oliver becomes more interested, wondering what else there is to know about the masked woman that Tommy didn't know.
"I thought you hated that name." Thea comment, as she has heard Sin's rant more than once.
"I do; I'm still working on something better." Sin admits.
"Even still, be careful." Laurel says, looking between Roy and Sin.
"We will." Roy and Sin say together before heading in the direction of the fire escape where Laurel leaves the window open.
"Isn't the front door the other way?" Oliver asks confused.
"Yeah, but Sin and Roy don't use the front door." Thea says, "Laurel always leaves the window open for them and they tend to use it even when leaving." She explains.
"You leave your window open, is that safe?" Oliver asks disapproving.
"It's safe enough." Laurel comments as she starts to pick up everything that needs be cleaned up.
"You should tone back the disapproval." Thea tells Oliver once Laurel has headed into the kitchen with the dishes, "Laurel knows what she is doing."
"I didn't mean to make it seems like I was judging." Oliver admits.
"Good, because you shouldn't." Thea tells her brother, "If it wasn't for Laurel I would be in a much worse place right now." Thea says, "She's saved me, in more ways than one."
"Me too." Oliver mutters as he thinks about all the times looking at his photo of her, or thinking about Laurel, helped him through the past five years.
"What?" Thea asks confused.
"Nothing. Oliver quickly says, "I should go." He says standing up, "I'm really glad that things, even with everything that has happened, are good for you." Oliver comments.
"Thanks Ollie." Thea tells him, "You should say goodbye to Laurel before you leave." Thea informs her brother.
"Right, yeah." Oliver says before heading to the kitchen.
When he gets to the kitchen a few seconds later he finds Laurel washing up all the dishes,
"I'm going." Oliver tells Laurel.
"Okay." Laurel says without even stopping what she is doing.
"Thanks for letting me stay, it was normal, it was nice." Oliver admits as he hasn't had a night like this for five years.
"I didn't do it for you, I did it for Thea. She's missed her big brother." Laurel tells him.
"And I've missed her." Oliver admits, "Though it looks like she's found a pretty great substitute."
"None of us could replace you or your parents." Laurel says as she turns to face Oliver, "And we never tried to be."
"I'm not saying that you did." Oliver says, not wanting to have another fight with Laurel, "I'm glad. I hate that Thea has gone through everything that has happened without me, but I'm glad that she had you, and Tommy, and Roy and Sin." Oliver admits, "With you is the best place for her, and I don't want to do anything to change that."
"Now that, I'm glad to hear." Laurel admits, "Night Ollie."
"Night Laurel." Oliver says and he turns and leaves.
It has been three days since Laurel, Thea, Oliver, Sin and Roy had their movie night together, and to Laurel's relief she hasn't had to deal with Oliver again, though Tommy did invite her to Oliver's welcome home party Sunday night.
It is about ten on Saturday morning and Laurel and Thea are the only ones who are at the apartment, Thea is sitting on the couch ready for her day with Oliver while Laurel is getting ready for what she is going to be spending her Saturday doing.
"What time is Ollie going to be here?" Laurel asks Thea curious, as she packs her bag.
"He was mean to be here at ten, so I'd say any time in the next hour." Thea comments.
"Right, Ollie time." Laurel comments, "I got to get going soon, but I can hang around if you want." Laurel offers.
"Nah, it's okay." Thea assures Laurel, "I'll be there in time to watch you today."
"You don't have to be if you want to spend the entire day with brother." Laurel informs Thea.
"Of course I'm going to there; I haven't missed watching you once. There is no way I'll miss you today." Thea assures Laurel
"Thanks Speedy." Laurel says with a smile, being glad that Thea is going to try and be there to watch her.
"I'd wish you luck, but I know you don't need it." Thea informs Laurel.
"That's one of us." Laurel comments, "I better get going, I really don't want to be late." Laurel says as she picks up the bag she was packing, "Love you." Laurel says as she bends down and hugs Thea.
"Love you too." Thea responds before Laurel heads out of the apartment.
For the twenty minutes after Laurel leaves Thea just sits on the couch reading a magazine while she waits, until she finally hears a knock the door.
"About time, Ollie." Thea says as she gets up and heads over to the door and just like she was expecting Thea finds her brother on the other side.
"Sorry, I'm late." Oliver says when he sees her.
"For you you're early." Thea comments.
"True." Oliver admits, "You ready to go?" he asks.
"Yeah." Thea says as she grabs her jacket, keys and purse and follows Oliver down the corridor, "So what have you got planned for today?" she asks her brother curious.
"Well I thought we could go to some of the places we used to and then have lunch, and then after lunch I was thinking that you pick what we do." Oliver tells Thea.
"That actually works perfectly." Thea comments, "There's something I want to show you this afternoon." Thea says as she and Oliver enter the stair well.
"Oh?" Oliver asks curious, "What would that be?"
"You'll have to wait and see. It's a surprise." Thea says with a smirk.
"Oh, okay then." Oliver says, truly wondering what Thea will have to show him.
For the next few minutes Thea and Oliver continue to walk downstairs and out to the car where Diggle is waiting by.
"You haven't even been back a week and you already have your new driver?" Thea asks surprised.
"Mr Diggle's not my driver." Oliver reveals, "He's my bodyguard."
"Seriously?" Thea asks surprised.
"The company insisted." Oliver explains as they reach the car, "Dig my sister Thea, Thea, Dig."
"Nice to meet you Miss Queen."
"Yeah, you too." Thea says, "But, I think I've seen before, quite a few times, at Big Belly Burger." She comments as they get into the car.
"Yeah, you have, I've seen you." Diggle comments, remembering seeing Thea a lot usually with two other teenagers or with the woman he knows to be Laurel, and on the very rare occasion Oliver's friend Tommy or more common than Tommy a man that Diggle knows from around the neighbourhood that he believes is called Ted.
"Where to Mr Queen?" Diggle asks Oliver curious.
"The mall." Oliver answers as he figures that it is a good place to start.
A few hours later Diggle is pulling up the car at the location that Thea gave him.
"A boxing gym, in The Glades, why are we here?" Oliver asks Thea, being completely confused, as it really doesn't seem like the kind of place his sister would go to.
"You'll see, come on." Thea says as she gets out of the car and Oliver, still having no idea what is going on gets out and follows her and Diggle gets out and follows them both.
About a minute later Thea, Oliver and Diggle walk into Ted's gym which is pretty busy.
"You going to explain now, Speedy?" Oliver asks curious.
"Laurel and I started coming her over three years ago." Thea explains as she looks around, looking for one person in particular, "We're here a lot. It's probably my favourite place to come."
"You like spending time at a boxing gym?" Oliver asks shocked as that doesn't seem like the Thea he remembers.
"Yep." Thea confirms as she spots who she is looking for, "Come on, there's someone I want you to meet." She says as she grabs her brothers hand and pulls him across the gym, causing Oliver to say,
"Sorry." To everyone he walks into as he is being pulled after his sister.
"TED." Thea calls and he turns around.
"Hey, Thea, I was wondering when you'd show." Ted says, looking glad to see her.
"I haven't missed it, have I?" Thea asks worried.
"Nah, its meant to start in three minutes." Ted reveals.
"Good, I would have never forgiven myself if I missed it." Thea says, causing Oliver to become even more confused.
"If you're looking for Roy and Sin I haven't seen them yet either." Ted reveals.
"Yeah, I know, they are on their way." Thea explains, "But actually, there is someone I want you to meet." Thea says, "This is my brother Oliver. Ollie, Ted Grant, it's his gym." Thea explains.
"It's nice to meet you." Oliver says, sticking out his hand for Ted to shake.
"Yeah, you to." Ted says, forcing a smile as he returns the handshake, "I've got to go make sure things are ready to get started, but we'll talk later." He tells Thea.
"Sure."
"It was nice meeting you Oliver." Ted says before leaving.
"Why do I get the feeling that he's not my biggest fan?" Oliver asks Thea.
"He's probably Laurel's best friend." Thea explains, "And knows…."
"Right." Oliver says, not needing Thea to say anymore.
"I'll give you a quick tour before things start." Thea tells Oliver.
"What exactly is about to start?" Oliver asks curious.
"You'll see." Thea says as she starts to show Oliver around the gym. For the next couple of minutes Thea shows Oliver all around Ted's gym, leaving out the private areas that Ted only lets her, Laurel, Sin and Roy into.
"And this was the bag I managed I knocked so hard that I almost knocked Laurel of her feet." Thea explains, "Twice." She adds, "I was pretty proud of myself, and Laurel was proud of me too." Thea explains.
"Really?" Oliver asks surprised.
"Yeah. For about four months I said that I would knock her over then I finally did." Thea explains.
"Ah, right." Oliver says, understanding the pride now and before he can say anything everyone hears,
"And now our final match of the afternoon, for victory and bragging rights, newcomer Taylor 'Trouble' Williams and our reigning champion, Wildcat gym's own, Laurel 'Justice' Lance." Ted's voice says and the second Oliver hears the name he looks to the ring in shock.
"Laurel?" Oliver asks as the last thing he expected was to watch Laurel fight a boxing match.
"Yep." Thea says with a grin, "This is my surprise." she reveals.
"I see." Oliver says, not looking away from where Laurel is standing in the ring for a second.
"ROY, SIN." Thea calls as she sees them and the two of them walk over.
As Ron and Sin walk over to Thea, Oliver and Diggle the boxing match starts and as it does part of Oliver wants to run and stop any of the blows form hitting Laurel while another part of him is incredibly proud as not only is Laurel holding her own but it is clear that she is the superior boxer.
"She's good." Diggle comments.
"Yeah, she is." Oliver says, being able to admit that even though every single one of his instincts are screaming at him to get Laurel out of the ring.
Watching the match Oliver is able to determine Laurel's strategy easily, she's trying to wear her appoint out, for about a minute Laurel just blocks or ducks, or just avoids basically all the attacks before, just as he opponent is starting to tire, Laurel does two quick jabs to the stomach before she does a single punch with just enough force to knock her opponent out, but do no serious damage or injury.
"One round." Oliver says to himself, being slightly amazed by that.
"Basically all Laurel's matches are one round." Thea says with a grin.
"How long has she been doing this?" Oliver asks curious.
"Two years, good or take." Thea reveal, "Come on." Thea says trying to pull Oliver to where Laurel is climbing out of the ring.
"I don't know…." Oliver starts to say but he lets Thea pull him along.
"LAUREL." Thea says as she basically throws herself into Laurel's arms, "You were amazing."
"Thanks Speedy." Laurel responds, "I'm glad you made it."
"There was no way I was going to miss this." Thea assures Laurel as they break apart.
"Oliver." Laurel says surprised when she and Thea break apart.
"Laurel, interesting hobby you've got here." Oliver comments.
"I see it more as therapy than a hobby." Laurel admits.
"Good to know." Oliver responds, being a little amused and not sure what to think about the fact that Laurel is now a boxer, a boxer who has some pretty good moves from just the little he saw.
"Ollie, we always go to big belly burger after a match. Do you want to come?" Thea asks curious, wanting to get Oliver involved in the traditions that she, Laurel, Sin and Roy have.
"Thanks for the offer Speedy, but there's something I have to go do." Oliver says as he plans to go pay a visit to Adam Hunt, "Maybe next time." He says before hugging his sister.
"Oh okay, bye Ollie." Thea says as she returns the hug.
"You were great out there." Oliver tells Laurel.
"Thanks, I think." Laurel responds and Oliver leaves, "So big belly burger?" Laurel asks, looking between Thea, Roy and Sin.
"Definitely." Sin says.
"Great, just give me a couple of minutes to get changed." Laurel comments, "I'll be right back." She says as she heads towards the locker rooms.
"See if you can get Ted to come." Sin calls at Laurel as she goes, causing the older woman to turn, smile and nod, being willing to try, but not expecting him to succeed as while he does join them sometimes he usually passes on the trips just after matches.
The next afternoon, Laurel having been unsuccessful in attempting to get Ted to join her, Thea, Sin and Roy at Big Belly Burger the day before, both Laurel and Thea are sitting I the office at the apartment. Laurel is working on the Adam Hunt case while Thea is doing her homework.
"So, all day I've been expecting you to ask if you could go to Ollie's welcome home party." Laurel says, as she pauses the music that she and Thea have been listening to while they work, "Is there a reason why you haven't?"
"Yep, I don't want to go." Thea responds.
"Really?" Laurel asks, sounding slightly surprised.
"How can you be surprised? You know I don't really do parties anymore." Thea comments.
"Yeah, I do. I was just expecting this to be different." Laurel admits as she is pretty sure that Thea hasn't been to Starling City party in about two years. In fact, the last party Thea would have gone to is Tommy's birthday party where she, Roy and Sin, tried to play investigator to try and find out who was the drug dealer that sold a friend of theirs drugs that caused an overdose.
"I thought about it." Thea admits, "But then Roy, Sin and I decided to go to the play pool." She explains.
"Okay, just no hustling this time." Laurel requests as she had to talk Roy, Sin and Thea out of getting banned from their favourite pool hall a few months ago.
"I promise I won't, but I can't make that promises for Sin and Roy." Thea admits.
"As long as you don't." Laurel tells her and they drift into silence as Thea tries to think the best way to phrase what she wants to say.
"I think you should go." Thea tells Laurel.
"Speedy." Laurel says with a sign.
"Look, I know Ollie hurt you in the worse way, and I don't want you to go if you'll just be hurt." Thea says as she stands up and walks over to Laurel, "But you and Ollie have been friends for... my entire life. There is so much history between you guys, and now he's back do you really want to throw that away?"
"I don't know." Laurel admits.
"Look, I know that whatever you said to one another the day he got back was bad, which I get; but do you really want to leave things like that?" Thea asks curious.
"I'll think about it." Laurel says, as she avoids answering Thea's second question.
"Good." Thea says, being pretty sure that that means that she is going to go, "I think you're making the right choice." She says as she heads back to where she is going
"I haven't decided yet." Laurel reminds Thea.
"Yeah, you have." Thea responds, knowing that because she knows Laurel.
Hours later, and to Thea's joy, Laurel is arriving at Oliver's party. As she starts to look around for the man of the hour, Laurel literally finds herself walking into him.
"Oh! Oh. You're here." Oliver says, surprised as he really wasn't expecting to see Laurel.
"You can thank Thea. She made me realise a few things, one of which is that we have too many years between us to leave things the way we left them the other day, both times" Laurel explains, "Is there somewhere quieter that we could go?" Laurel asks.
"Yeah." Oliver says and the two of them head up to the observation floor, "You're not limping anymore." He comments.
"Like I said it was just a cut." Laurel tells him, "I'm sorry about saying that you should have been the one who died. That was wrong." Laurel tells Oliver as she has truly felt bad about what she said, and honestly she has been regretting it ever since she said it.
"If I could trade places with her, I would." Oliver tells Laurel, completely meaning that.
"About Sara, there's something that I've been afraid to ask, but I need to know." Laurel says.
"Okay." Oliver says, not sure if he is going to like where this is going.
"Did she suffer?"
"No." Oliver lies.
"I think about her every day." Laurel reveals.
"Me, too."
"I guess we still have one thing in common then." Laurel says and as she does she finds herself speaking before she even thinks about what it means in the long run, "I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but If you need someone to talk to about what happened to you, I'm here." Laurel says and before Oliver can respond his phone vibrates.
"Something wrong?" Laurel asks when she notices Oliver's frown.
"I asked somebody to do something. They didn't do it." Oliver says and knowing what he has to go do Oliver knows what he has to say, even though it hurts, "Laurel, you always saw the best in me. Right now, that's what you're doing, looking at me, and you're wondering if that island changed me somehow, if it made me a better person. It didn't. Stay away from me." Oliver says, partly telling the truth because he is sure that Laurel will just get hurt, "Otherwise, I'm just gonna hurt you again, but this time, it'll be worse. Gotta roll. I've got five years of debauchery to catch up on." Oliver says, putting on his old playboy persona on, and as he does he can see how much he's hurt Laurel.
"You know what, Oliver? You're wrong. That island did change you. At least now you're honest." Laurel says before leaving, knowing exactly what she wants to do right now.
More than a few hours later, after spending most of those hours, beating up criminals in the glades, Laurel arrives back home by climbing in her window. As she does Laurel realises that the living room light is on. As she doesn't want to head out there in her Woman in Black clothes just in case Roy and Sin are over, Laurel quickly gets changed before heading out, but the only person she finds is Thea, sitting on the couch eating ice cream.
"What are you still doing up?" Laurel asks when she sees Thea
"Waiting for you." Thea comments, "So, I'm guessing that things at the party went well." Thea comments as Laurel sits down next to her.
"No, the opposite. I've been in the Glades for the past few hours." Laurel admits as she takes the ice cream off Thea to take a bite.
"Without coms, and without telling me you were going out, things must have been really bad." Thea realises, "Is my brother to blame?" she asks and Laurel just takes another bite to avoid answering, "I'm going to take that as a yes." Thea says, being able to tell that her brother hurt Laurel with whatever he did or said, even if she tries to hide it, "Do you want to talk about it?"
"No, it's complicated and you have to get to bed." Laurel tells Thea, "It's way past your bedtime."
"But…." Thea starts to say.
"Bed." Laurel says sternly.
"Fine. Night Laurel." Thea says, giving Laurel a hug before she heads to bed.
After Thea heads to bed Laurel just continues to sit by herself eating the ice cream, trying to do her best not to think about the fact that after so long, after so much hurt, Oliver still has the ability to say the perfect things to hurt her.
Late the next afternoon, having just hung up with one of her clients, Laurel turns to Jo who has just walked over.
"I just got a very grateful phone call from one of our clients against Adam Hunt." Laurel informs Jo.
"Me, too. Do you think it was the Woman in Black?" Jo asks Laurel curious.
"Somehow managing to get people to hand over money they stole, doesn't seem like her style." Laurel comments, though she would love to know who was behind it.
"Yeah, guess not." Jo admits, "It looks like Starling City has another guardian angel." She says, "Your kids are here." Jo says and Laurel turns to see Thea, Roy and Sin.
"Hey, just let me pack up what I have to bring home and then we can go." Laurel tells them.
"Okay." Thea says and the three of them watch as Laurel packs up the stuff she needs to take home with them.
A few minutes later Laurel, Thea, Roy, and Sin are walking down an alley heading back to Laurel and Thea's place, none of them realising that they are being watched by a hooded figure that unknown to them is Oliver.
"Why did you bring so much work with you? I though the Adam Hunt case was over." Sin comments.
"Thanks to some help." Roy adds.
"It is, but fighting for those who can't fight for themselves never ends." Laurel explains.
"Dinah Laurel Lance always trying to save the world." Thea says with a grin as she puts her arm around Laurel's shoulder.
"Hey. If I don't try and save it, who will?" Laurel asks with an amused look on her face causing the four of them to exchange smiles as they walk down the alley.
